"The Altar of Performance" is a dark fable that blends cyber horror with workplace critique. Programmer Chen Zhuo, under the rule of the "God of Performance" in high-dimensional systems, witnessed his colleagues being "optimized" into cold data. In order to save his daughter who was bound as a "holy child", he was forced to transform into an "executive officer", sacrifice his mentor and hunt his colleagues, but in the abyss he glimpsed the truth that the system feeds on human anxiety. When the blood sacrifice spread to the family, he carried the paradox code "DeepRed_Status=False" deep into the core of the altar, used father's love as a blade, cut off the "umbilical cord" connecting thousands of children, and killed gods at the border of consciousness. However, the collapsed system does not bring liberation, but only transfers the assessment to every mortal soul - the ghost of efficiency is still breathing, and the price of freedom is the eternal childishness of the daughter and the eternal vigilance of the self. This is a dystopian epic about the era of "unrest" and a god-killing manual for all social beasts: real performance begins with saying no to order for the first time.
